Nursing-bottle holder.



I. REYMAN.

NURSING BOTTLE HOLDER.

APPLICATION FILED 8EPT.24,1913.

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NURSING-BOTTLE HOLDER.

Patented Feb. 9, 1915..

Application filed September 24, 1913. Serial No. 791,534..

To all whom it may concern:

,Be it known that I, Tss REYMAN, a citizen of the United States, and aresident of Port Chester, in the county of Westchester and State of NewYork, have invented a new and Improved Nursing-Bottle Holder, of whichthe following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to brackets for special purposes and especiallyto brackets for holding nursing bottles in connection with infantscribs, cradles, carriages or the like.

Among the special objects of this invention is to provide a device ofthe character indicated which is of an exceedingly simple and henceeflective and reliable nature and which may be readily clamped securelyin any ordinary position in which it may be desired to be used.

The foregoing and other objects of the invention will hereinafter bemore fully described and claimed and illustrated in the drawingsforming-a part of this specification in which like characters ofreference indicate corresponding views, and in which Figure 1 is anendview of the entire device but indicating the clamp in elevation; Fig.2 is a plan view, the clamp being in section; and Fig. 3 is a plan viewof a portion of the device indicating a different position of thebracket. I r

The several parts of-the device may be made of any suitable materialsand the relative sizes and proportions, as well as the general designthereof, may be varied to a certain extent without departing from thespirit of the invention hereinafter more fully .set forth andspecifically claimed.

The device comprises three principal parts, namely, a yoke or bracket10, an arm 11 and a clamp 12.

The bracket 10 consists of a disk-like base 13 to-which are connectedintegrally a pair of fiekible tongues 14. The outer free ends oftheatongues are adapted to embrace the bottle 13 substantially midwaybetween its bottom and top, the action of the tongues being to grip themiddle ortion of the bottle with a fair degree of iction, though notsufficiently to interfere with the free rotation of the bottle aroundthe line joining said free ends as an axis,'as shown by broken linesinFig. 2. Said bottle is secured in position between said tongues andwith its parts in all the.

bottom against the base .13 by means of a pair of coil springs 15 havingtheir ends connected to the ends of the tongues in r spaced holes 16,each spring 15 being connected independently of the other spring. Whenthe bottle is turned from its normal position, the position shown inFig. 2 infull lines, the springs 15 tend to restore it to such position,the springs both being put under tension by the turning of the bottlefrom its normal position.

The arm 11 is substantially stiff, being formed from a suitable piece ofrod metal and having at one end a right angular extension 11 to whichthe base 13 is connected. The connection between the rod and the base iseffected by means of a socket 13- formed in the center of the base intowhich the threaded end of the arm 11 is extended. The base will besecured to the arm so as to bring the tongues in any desired position.Fig. 2 shows an arrangement in which the two tongues lie substantiallyhorizontally in ting the yoke as desired, it may be locked in positionwith respect to the arm by means of a lock nut 17.

The clamp 12 comprises two blades 18 and 19 both loosely mounted uponthe thread 11 of the arm 11. The blade 18 is limited in its movement inone direction by means of a nut 20 carried by-the arm. This nut also, byits adjustment along the arm, determines the efiective length of the armfrom the. support S upon which the device may be mounted. The otherblade, 19, is

adapted to be clamped against the opposite side of the support S'bymeans of a winged nut 21 running upon the arm.

22 indicates a spacing rod or bolt having a countersunk head 22 at oneend of the blade 18, extending thence through the other blade andconsequently is carried in a substantially parallel relation to the arm11. A nut 23 secures the bolt 22 with its head 22 in connection with theblade 11. A look nut 24: cooperates with the other blade 19 and servesas a fulcrumfor that end of the blade 19 remote from the support S. Bythe adjustment of the lock nut 24:, the clamping effect of the twoblades may be variably determined. For cooperation, however with thesame support rethe combination of a yoke and means stationary supportand with a support of any reasonable thickness. The clamp is exceedinglyrigid and effective, taking into consideration that but a single wingednut. is required to complete the adjustment or locking thereof. Thesetting of the clamp, furthermore, locks the arm 11 from rotation. Whilethe arm may be arranged with the extension 11' in a horizontal plane, itis obvious that it may be locked with said extension extending in anydirection in a plane perpendicular to the main portion of the arm. Iprefer, however, that it be adjusted, as shown in Fig. 2, with the basein a vertical plane and with, the bottle free to swing around a verticalaxis. I have observed in practice that a child lying in his crib islikely to move his head from one side to the other, but the bottle, asabove stated, tends to return to its normal position and within naturalreach of the child. The

lock nut 17 with its cooperation with the extension 11 provides means,however, for adjusting the yoke 10 so that the bottle may swing in avertical plane, if desired.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secureby Letters Patent 1. In a device of the character set forth,

to support said yoke in fixed position, said yoke comprising a disk-iikebase, a pair of spring tongues extending from diametrically oppositeedges of the base in substantially the same direction and adapted toembrace the sides of the bottle between its bottom and its neck, and apair of springs surrounding the bottle and secured at their ends to theends name to this specification in the of the tongues independently ofeach other,

said springs serving to permit the bottle to tilt between the fingersand to return. the

lbottle to normal upright position upon the ase.

2. In a nursing bottle holder, the combination of an arm, means tosecure the arm in fixed position, a yoke comprising a diskshaped base toengage the bottle bottom in normal upright position, a pair of springtongues connected integrally with the base and extending therefrom insubstantially parallel relation to each other, and spring meansextending from the free end of one tongue to the corresponding end ofthe other tongue and serving to allow the bottle to be tilted from thebase and to cause the bottle to turn 0 said normal position whenreleased, and means to secure the yoke to the arm, said securing meansproviding for various positions of adjustment of said tongues withrespect to the plane of the arm.

3. In a nursing bottle holder, the combination of a rigid arm having anangularly arranged extension at one end and having its other end screwthreaded, a bottle holding yoke carried. b said extension of the arm, apair of clamping blades loosely mounted upon the threaded end of thearm, a spacing bolt arranged parallel to the arm, one end of the boltbeing connected to one of the blades and having its free end extendingloosely through the other blade, anda series of lock nuts cooperatingwith said bolt and said arm to determine the clamping positions of thearm and said blades with respect to a fixed support.

In testimony whereof I have signed my presence of two subscribingwitnesses.

ISS R EYMAN. Witnesses WALTER A. FERRIS, EVERETT H. GEDNEY.

